February 2023
Chinese Authorities Block Foreign Journalists From Reporting on COVID-19
Fate of lockdown protesters in China unknown - A group of friends attended a vigil in Beijing. Then one by one, they disappeared
Chinese Authorities Block Foreign Journalists From Reporting on COVID-19
Fate of lockdown protesters in China unknown - A group of friends attended a vigil in Beijing. Then one by one, they disappeared
1/22/23
Demographics Is Destiny - China’s population shrinks for the first time since the 1960s
Chinese local government debt crisis ramping up; workers not being paid
(Jennifer Zeng mailing 1/13/23)
1/8/23
New book blows the whistle on Chinese-owned ZTE:
A funny thing happened on the way to China becoming the ‘Model to the World’ - it’s been one crisis after another, lately (COVID, economic hiccups, political unrest)
12/10/22 - Historic Protests in China
New Article on Spider & the Fly - George Orwell Got It Right: How I Experienced 1984 in Communist Hungary
From our friends at Stories of Communism - Episode 45 delves into an unusual novel, partly autobiographical, that shows how communism affects the lives of artists, writers, and scholars trapped in a monstrous system (“The Yawning Heights” by Russian dissident, philosopher, and sociologist Alexander Zinoviev)
Historic Protests in China
Jiang Zemin a ‘lovable toad’? Hardly - issued first order to kill Falun Gong practitioners for their organs
Vatican Says China Broke Agreement on Bishops
Reject the CCP’s Effort to Co-opt Buddhism
Hong Kong
11/19/22
19 officials quit the CCP during a government meeting in Hunan Province. #PaperDragon
Commission report blasts Xi’s “Chinese view of human rights” as, in reality, a “vision of a world safe for authoritarianism, where the power of the state supersedes personal freedoms and the strong can bully the weak”
World uproar over China’s overseas ‘police stations’ continues; China gets dissidents to return to the mainland by imprisoning family members until dissidents relent
Canada accuses China of aggressive election interference; Beijing backed a “clandestine network” of 11 candidates in recent elections
Xi’s ‘New Era’ promises harder lines on forcing Marxist ideological purity, stifling dissent, reasserting state control of the economy, and pursuing global disruption
Dissent against tyranny can never be stamped out:
New documentary: ‘The Hong Konger, Jimmy Lai's Extraordinary Struggle For Freedom’
10/23/22
‘Xi Jinping Must Go’, ‘End Zero-COVID Lockdown’, ‘Direct Elections Now’ - Bridge Man’s message makes it to New York, London, Seoul, and around China (Asia News Monitor; Bangkok [Bangkok]. 21 Oct 2022)
China using real estate firms as cover for espionage and subversion in the U.S.; putting critical mass of pro-CCP Chinese near military bases
A Dissident Escapes Xi Jinping’s China and a Life ‘Made Up of Lies’
Animated feature film “Eternal Spring” takes viewers along the journey of artist Daxiong (Star Wars, Justice League) as religious persecution forces him to flee China
10/9/22
Red Chinese establish ‘police stations’ in New York, Canada, Europe to ‘persuade’ dissidents to return to China - 230,000 have gone so far
Arrest of election management software CEO raises concerns U.S. poll worker data sent to China
Chinese Embassy tries to silence Pompeo broadcasts into China
City of Fear: Hong Kong government dismantling democratic institutions and civil society
Xi Jinping has destroyed all vestiges of civil society in China: crushed emerging independent media, academic freedom, NGO workers, human rights lawyers
Demographics Is Destiny - China’s population shrinks for the first time since the 1960s
- Desperate Chinese regime proposes to cut schooling from 12 to 10 years so people get married younger and make more babies for Xi quicker
Chinese local government debt crisis ramping up; workers not being paid
(Jennifer Zeng mailing 1/13/23)
- One demands ‘give me my hard-earned money.’ That doesn’t sound very socialist to me, Comrade, off to the reeducation camp with you!
- Dam in Ecuador has thousands of cracks and could fail
- Actually, this is not surprising. I interviewed a commercial builder some years ago about office buildings going up in Red China. He warned investors off, because the buildings were shoddily built and not up to any decent standards.
- What did you expect from a gangster regime?
1/8/23
New book blows the whistle on Chinese-owned ZTE:
- “ZTE was using shell companies to acquire U.S. component parts, directing them back to China, and from there, selling them to Iran,” deliberately breaking U.S. export control laws; author refused to lie about it on ZTE’s behalf
- To the Chinese, obeying the law is just a suggestion”
- ... he also received several death threats from his employer. “They’re saying, from ZTE, ‘We, ZTE, are going to kill you. We’re going to kill your family. We’re going to kill your children. We’re going to kill your children’s children.’ And it went on and on,” he said.
- “I don’t think I’ll ever feel safe”
- “I don’t think I’ll ever feel safe”
A funny thing happened on the way to China becoming the ‘Model to the World’ - it’s been one crisis after another, lately (COVID, economic hiccups, political unrest)
- Xi Jinping showing moments of weakness - forced to abandon zero-COVID policies, gave up massive investments aimed at building a chip industry to compete with the U.S., showing self-doubt in speeches, etc. (Jennifer Zeng subscriber mailing 1/6/23)
12/10/22 - Historic Protests in China
New Article on Spider & the Fly - George Orwell Got It Right: How I Experienced 1984 in Communist Hungary
From our friends at Stories of Communism - Episode 45 delves into an unusual novel, partly autobiographical, that shows how communism affects the lives of artists, writers, and scholars trapped in a monstrous system (“The Yawning Heights” by Russian dissident, philosopher, and sociologist Alexander Zinoviev)
- Speaking of monstrous systems, don’t miss ‘Two Lives’ with Liv Ullmann - an East German Stasi spy gets caught in the contradictions between her espionage and her family life. It doesn’t end well. And that’s the Achilles’ Heel of socialism: revolutionaries end up regretting being so devoted to the cause when brought face-to-face with socialism’s disregard for individual private lives. Read ‘We the Living’ by Ayn Rand and you’ll see the vulnerability. Even the communist spies reading this must mourn for their own lost private lives.
Historic Protests in China
- Desire for freedom at root of China protests
- Chinese Authorities Start Tracking Down Protestors After Mass COVID Demonstrations
- Evading Chinese Censors to Post Videos of Protests Has Become an Art Form
Jiang Zemin a ‘lovable toad’? Hardly - issued first order to kill Falun Gong practitioners for their organs
- NPR Gets Jiang Zemin All Wrong - NPR and other American media outlets really should stop romanticizing butchers and communist dictators. It’s not a good look.
Vatican Says China Broke Agreement on Bishops
- They’re communists. What did you expect?
Reject the CCP’s Effort to Co-opt Buddhism
Hong Kong
- Chinese Communist Party critic, media mogul Jimmy Lai sentenced to 69 months in prison
- Facing brain drain, Hong Kong plans $3.8 billion ‘trawl’ for global talent
- 69 months in prison speaks louder than $3.8 billion
- Hong Kong’s new slogan - ‘Socialism Is So Good It Has to be Made Mandatory’
11/19/22
19 officials quit the CCP during a government meeting in Hunan Province. #PaperDragon
Commission report blasts Xi’s “Chinese view of human rights” as, in reality, a “vision of a world safe for authoritarianism, where the power of the state supersedes personal freedoms and the strong can bully the weak”
World uproar over China’s overseas ‘police stations’ continues; China gets dissidents to return to the mainland by imprisoning family members until dissidents relent
- China hires private detectives under false pretenses to do their dirty work of spying on dissidents in America, FBI says
Canada accuses China of aggressive election interference; Beijing backed a “clandestine network” of 11 candidates in recent elections
Xi’s ‘New Era’ promises harder lines on forcing Marxist ideological purity, stifling dissent, reasserting state control of the economy, and pursuing global disruption
- Killing the market softly with Xi’s song - business class sees space for creating wealth slipping away
Dissent against tyranny can never be stamped out:
- CCP official who was imprisoned over the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests dies at 90; he was expelled from the Party and jailed for his pro-democracy views
- But young jailed human rights lawyer soldiers on in Hong Kong - ‘the communist state can incarcerate people, but it cannot lock up their thinking’
New documentary: ‘The Hong Konger, Jimmy Lai's Extraordinary Struggle For Freedom’
10/23/22
‘Xi Jinping Must Go’, ‘End Zero-COVID Lockdown’, ‘Direct Elections Now’ - Bridge Man’s message makes it to New York, London, Seoul, and around China (Asia News Monitor; Bangkok [Bangkok]. 21 Oct 2022)
China using real estate firms as cover for espionage and subversion in the U.S.; putting critical mass of pro-CCP Chinese near military bases
A Dissident Escapes Xi Jinping’s China and a Life ‘Made Up of Lies’
Animated feature film “Eternal Spring” takes viewers along the journey of artist Daxiong (Star Wars, Justice League) as religious persecution forces him to flee China
10/9/22
Red Chinese establish ‘police stations’ in New York, Canada, Europe to ‘persuade’ dissidents to return to China - 230,000 have gone so far
Arrest of election management software CEO raises concerns U.S. poll worker data sent to China
Chinese Embassy tries to silence Pompeo broadcasts into China
City of Fear: Hong Kong government dismantling democratic institutions and civil society
Xi Jinping has destroyed all vestiges of civil society in China: crushed emerging independent media, academic freedom, NGO workers, human rights lawyers
- The bigger the government, the smaller the individual
9/18/22 - Mutant Dragon, Like a Cancer, Won’t Stop Growing
China uses 54 overseas police stations, including in New York City, to hunt down citizens
New report shows China ramping up efforts to influence U.S. media to spin pro-Beijing narratives - more sophistication, more coercion, more money changing hands
Whistleblower says Chinese agent worked at Twitter, putting user data at risk
China working assiduously to bring Latin America within its orbit through economic dominance, elite capture, and port and military projects - ‘Support Taiwan? No medical supplies for you.’
China uses 54 overseas police stations, including in New York City, to hunt down citizens
New report shows China ramping up efforts to influence U.S. media to spin pro-Beijing narratives - more sophistication, more coercion, more money changing hands
Whistleblower says Chinese agent worked at Twitter, putting user data at risk
China working assiduously to bring Latin America within its orbit through economic dominance, elite capture, and port and military projects - ‘Support Taiwan? No medical supplies for you.’
6/19/22
How repression gets done in a modern dictatorship: China thwarts frozen bank fund protest by flipping depositors’ health status app to red, preventing them from traveling
Mao took away everyone’s guns - “An estimated 65 million Chinese died as a result of Mao’s repeated, merciless attempts to create a new ‘socialist’ China.”
How repression gets done in a modern dictatorship: China thwarts frozen bank fund protest by flipping depositors’ health status app to red, preventing them from traveling
Mao took away everyone’s guns - “An estimated 65 million Chinese died as a result of Mao’s repeated, merciless attempts to create a new ‘socialist’ China.”
- Socialism is the best excuse for tyranny ever invented
5/8/22 - The Long Arm of the Lawless CCP
China sending police to Solomon Islands but, not to worry, it won’t turn into Hong Kong, so they say
China has been sending goons to target Shen Yun dancers and musicians in upstate New York for years, intimidating them with propaganda, lies, and life-threatening sabotage
China hunting down Uighurs around the world; more than 1,500 detained or forced to return to China
Human rights report: China stepping up pressure on Sinicized state-sanctioned religious groups with new restrictions on clergy, schools, and Internet postings
Xinjiang survivor to testify to Congress and International Criminal Court about torture in CCP camps
First-person account: ‘Our souls are dead’: how I survived a Chinese ‘re-education’ camp for Uyghurs
“Canaries in a Cold War” film documents CCP’s rape, torture, forced organ harvesting, and other human rights violations
Election of CCP-tied official to U.N. Torture Committee expected to cripple independent review of China’s record on brutality
Another consequence of Chinese dominance of the U.N. - Judge Dismissed Before Ruling That UN Helped Beijing Persecute Dissidents
Xi Jinping backs off ‘Common Prosperity’ policy - aimed at reducing inequality - to regain economic growth. #SocialistsNeverLearn #NEP
China tried to strong-arm Sony into taking the Statue of Liberty out of the latest ‘Spider-Man’ movie, but Sony refused
Animated film ‘Eternal Spring’ tells “The Story of 18 Brave Chinese Who Tapped Into State TV to Air Uncensored News in China” in 2002
Chinese law professor silenced after commenting on chained woman scandal; colleagues told not to discuss the scandal in the classroom
The number of people quitting the CCP nears 400 millionIf you want to quit, go to the Tuidang website
Sen Nieh
China sending police to Solomon Islands but, not to worry, it won’t turn into Hong Kong, so they say
China has been sending goons to target Shen Yun dancers and musicians in upstate New York for years, intimidating them with propaganda, lies, and life-threatening sabotage
China hunting down Uighurs around the world; more than 1,500 detained or forced to return to China
Human rights report: China stepping up pressure on Sinicized state-sanctioned religious groups with new restrictions on clergy, schools, and Internet postings
Xinjiang survivor to testify to Congress and International Criminal Court about torture in CCP camps
- repeatedly restrained in ‘tiger chair’ for a day at a stretch
First-person account: ‘Our souls are dead’: how I survived a Chinese ‘re-education’ camp for Uyghurs
“Canaries in a Cold War” film documents CCP’s rape, torture, forced organ harvesting, and other human rights violations
Election of CCP-tied official to U.N. Torture Committee expected to cripple independent review of China’s record on brutality
Another consequence of Chinese dominance of the U.N. - Judge Dismissed Before Ruling That UN Helped Beijing Persecute Dissidents
Xi Jinping backs off ‘Common Prosperity’ policy - aimed at reducing inequality - to regain economic growth. #SocialistsNeverLearn #NEP
China tried to strong-arm Sony into taking the Statue of Liberty out of the latest ‘Spider-Man’ movie, but Sony refused
Animated film ‘Eternal Spring’ tells “The Story of 18 Brave Chinese Who Tapped Into State TV to Air Uncensored News in China” in 2002
Chinese law professor silenced after commenting on chained woman scandal; colleagues told not to discuss the scandal in the classroom
The number of people quitting the CCP nears 400 millionIf you want to quit, go to the Tuidang website
Sen Nieh
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Special Edition - 4/2/22
“Heaven Wants to Destroy the CCP” - Hundreds of Millions Quitting the Chinese Communist Party - |
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Since the Tuidang Movement started 17 years ago, almost 400 million people have quit the Chinese Communist Party and its youth wings. Courageous volunteers in tourist areas the world over approach Chinese visitors to see if they, too, will quit. Inside China, signs are popping up, “Heaven Wants to Destroy the CCP - Quit for Your Safety”. CCP and government officials are among those quitting.
The Movement was sparked by the publication of the Epoch Times “Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party” in 2004 which exposed the true and brutal nature of the CCP. At first, only a handful quit, but now they’re quitting by the tens of millions. The ‘Nine Commentaries’ are well-known in China, with people going around the Great Firewall to read them.
From the video above: “For those who don’t live under communist rule, it is hard to understand the amount of courage needed to publicly state one’s exit from the Communist Party.” In China, good jobs and business opportunities are tied to party membership, so quitting is not done lightly. But the CCP is no match for the desire for individual freedom and a clean conscience.
Folks, this is how change will come. Spread the word.
Let’s start our own ‘influence operation’ and wipe the CCP from the face of the earth.
Lech Walesa, Former Polish President, Says China's Tuidang Movement Is "History's Tsunami"
H.Res.932 introduced in 2018 - Expressing solidarity with the Tuidang Movement
Article by ACAT Speaker Jennifer Zeng -
Tuidang: A Movement That Can Dissolve the CCP From Within
A Retired CCP Worker Quit the Party
The Movement was sparked by the publication of the Epoch Times “Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party” in 2004 which exposed the true and brutal nature of the CCP. At first, only a handful quit, but now they’re quitting by the tens of millions. The ‘Nine Commentaries’ are well-known in China, with people going around the Great Firewall to read them.
From the video above: “For those who don’t live under communist rule, it is hard to understand the amount of courage needed to publicly state one’s exit from the Communist Party.” In China, good jobs and business opportunities are tied to party membership, so quitting is not done lightly. But the CCP is no match for the desire for individual freedom and a clean conscience.
Folks, this is how change will come. Spread the word.
Let’s start our own ‘influence operation’ and wipe the CCP from the face of the earth.
Lech Walesa, Former Polish President, Says China's Tuidang Movement Is "History's Tsunami"
H.Res.932 introduced in 2018 - Expressing solidarity with the Tuidang Movement
Article by ACAT Speaker Jennifer Zeng -
Tuidang: A Movement That Can Dissolve the CCP From Within
A Retired CCP Worker Quit the Party
- ... the CCP is an evil specter. It has used the most despicable and disgusting means in history to carry out campaigns of suppression. Its dictatorial tyranny has killed countless Chinese people. It has destroyed traditional culture and morality. Everything it propagates is false and evil. It brainwashes the Chinese people at all times and puts the Chinese nation in doom and gloom.
- all of the professors at her university, especially the history and politics professors, were under constant surveillance. Many government departments in China are also under strict surveillance.
- Fanqiang (climbing over the firewall) has been a popular phrase among Chinese people in recent years, especially the youth. The term means bypassing the Great Firewall of China to access overseas information. Google, Youtube, Facebook, Twitter… have all been banned in China. “Fanqiang is fairly easy,” wrote a young man in an online chat to his friends, “I have found lots of ‘little pinkies’ (people who spread pro-Chinese Communist Party remarks) on the Internet, and some do not even know about the Tiananmen Square Massacre in 1989. I really hope they can learn this technique and take a look at the outside world.”
4/2/22 - Round-Up
Raging Panda - U.S. Charges Chinese Agent in Alleged Schemes to Forcibly Repatriate U.S., Canadian Residents
CCP pressured Biden administration to scrap Justice Department counterespionage program, House Republicans allege
China denies Australian Ambassador entry to secret trial of Australian journalist
China growing its military presence in Latin America with arms sales and peer instructions; observers worry China will leverage port operations for military advantage
China won’t print foreign books unless publishers take out words like ‘Taiwan’
Annual report strikes a hopeful note - Chinese people standing up against CCP’s genocide, torture, religious and political imprisonment (.pdf)
Raging Panda - U.S. Charges Chinese Agent in Alleged Schemes to Forcibly Repatriate U.S., Canadian Residents
CCP pressured Biden administration to scrap Justice Department counterespionage program, House Republicans allege
China denies Australian Ambassador entry to secret trial of Australian journalist
China growing its military presence in Latin America with arms sales and peer instructions; observers worry China will leverage port operations for military advantage
China won’t print foreign books unless publishers take out words like ‘Taiwan’
Annual report strikes a hopeful note - Chinese people standing up against CCP’s genocide, torture, religious and political imprisonment (.pdf)
China Getting More Brazen by the Day
3/20/22
Justice Department charges 5 as Chinese agents for threatening and spying on Chinese persons in the U.S. who oppose the CCP
The Mandate of Hell - Communist China’s Threat to Humanity
2/5/22
What a difference 14 years makes. The 2008 Beijing Olympics were China’s debut on the world stage, and China trumpeted its ‘56 Nationalities’ during the Games’ opening ceremonies. The world was hopeful an emerging China would add to global harmony. But now, as the 2022 Olympics are underway, the world sees a very different China, a communist totalitarian China engaging in genocide of the Uighurs, imprisoning Tibet, threatening neighbors, waging debt-trap diplomacy, making products with slave labor, stealing intellectual property, unleashing a million spies upon the world, conducting underhanded influence and elite capture operations everywhere, persecuting religious minorities, and jailing and executing dissenters in a thousand political prisons. The world now understands the true import of China’s ’56 Nationalities’ - China is a racist imperial power bent on world domination, subjugating all peoples under the Han master race. (Ethnically targeted bioweapons, anyone?) It is a threat to humanity at home and abroad. The world is no longer under any illusions about communist China. The CCP does not have the mandate of heaven, and it knows it. Its rule is not just, and brings only disharmony. Accordingly, its days are numbered. Heaven will find another way.
The Genocide Games
Anastasia Lin:
Olympics Heighten Oppression in China - Beijing jails and tortures those who dare to speak out against the Communist Party ahead of the Winter Games
This Uighur was an Olympic torchbearer in 2008. Today, he is an activist in the United States calling for a boycott of the Winter Games over China’s treatment of his Uighur ethnic community.
Uighur open letter: Dear Olympians: Can anyone help me reach my family?
Beijing’s Olympic organizers warn that athletes who speak against China will be punished, i.e. arrested and jailed
More Bad News from Communist China
China sentences Uighur man to death, three others to life in prison for creating texts on historical resistance movements drawn in part from previously approved narratives
UN’s top human rights official has been waiting three years to visit Xinjiang province, but the ‘parameters’ of the visit are still ‘under discussion’
Uyghur kids recall physical and mental torment at Chinese boarding schools in Xinjiang
Mike Pompeo: ‘Unsilenced’ film is a scathing indictment of the CCP’s persecution of a religious minority, ordered from the top
South Korea denies legal status to group of 60 Christians who fled abuse in China; group expressing desire to emigrate to the United States
China jails 11 who shared early pandemic photos with Western media
There can be the illusion of equality under socialism only because the elites keep the street sweepers and trash removers invisible - Migrant Worker’s Tale of Inequality Grips China, Then Is Erased
3/20/22
Justice Department charges 5 as Chinese agents for threatening and spying on Chinese persons in the U.S. who oppose the CCP
- one plot involved undermining and physically attacking a Congressional candidate who had been a student leader at Tiananmen Square
- Xi Jinping has “stepped-up efforts to manage and guide the Chinese diaspora—both Han Chinese and ethnic minorities such as Uighurs and Tibetans—so as to utilize them as agents of Chinese foreign policy while meting out increasingly harsh treatment to those who do not cooperate...” - from Political Warfare: Strategies for Combating China’s Plan to “Win without Fighting” by Kerry Gershaneck, p. 44 (quoting Brady)
- CCP united front work “aimed at the outside world has gone on the offensive, fighting on all fronts, indicating that the [CCP] leadership believes it is in a position of strength and has no reason to hide its efforts.” - from Political Warfare: Strategies for Combating China’s Plan to “Win without Fighting” by Kerry Gershaneck, p. 45 (quoting Brady)
The Mandate of Hell - Communist China’s Threat to Humanity
2/5/22
What a difference 14 years makes. The 2008 Beijing Olympics were China’s debut on the world stage, and China trumpeted its ‘56 Nationalities’ during the Games’ opening ceremonies. The world was hopeful an emerging China would add to global harmony. But now, as the 2022 Olympics are underway, the world sees a very different China, a communist totalitarian China engaging in genocide of the Uighurs, imprisoning Tibet, threatening neighbors, waging debt-trap diplomacy, making products with slave labor, stealing intellectual property, unleashing a million spies upon the world, conducting underhanded influence and elite capture operations everywhere, persecuting religious minorities, and jailing and executing dissenters in a thousand political prisons. The world now understands the true import of China’s ’56 Nationalities’ - China is a racist imperial power bent on world domination, subjugating all peoples under the Han master race. (Ethnically targeted bioweapons, anyone?) It is a threat to humanity at home and abroad. The world is no longer under any illusions about communist China. The CCP does not have the mandate of heaven, and it knows it. Its rule is not just, and brings only disharmony. Accordingly, its days are numbered. Heaven will find another way.
The Genocide Games
Anastasia Lin:
Olympics Heighten Oppression in China - Beijing jails and tortures those who dare to speak out against the Communist Party ahead of the Winter Games
This Uighur was an Olympic torchbearer in 2008. Today, he is an activist in the United States calling for a boycott of the Winter Games over China’s treatment of his Uighur ethnic community.
Uighur open letter: Dear Olympians: Can anyone help me reach my family?
Beijing’s Olympic organizers warn that athletes who speak against China will be punished, i.e. arrested and jailed
- Do you recall this kind of warning ever being given at Olympic Games before?
More Bad News from Communist China
China sentences Uighur man to death, three others to life in prison for creating texts on historical resistance movements drawn in part from previously approved narratives
UN’s top human rights official has been waiting three years to visit Xinjiang province, but the ‘parameters’ of the visit are still ‘under discussion’
Uyghur kids recall physical and mental torment at Chinese boarding schools in Xinjiang
Mike Pompeo: ‘Unsilenced’ film is a scathing indictment of the CCP’s persecution of a religious minority, ordered from the top
South Korea denies legal status to group of 60 Christians who fled abuse in China; group expressing desire to emigrate to the United States
China jails 11 who shared early pandemic photos with Western media
There can be the illusion of equality under socialism only because the elites keep the street sweepers and trash removers invisible - Migrant Worker’s Tale of Inequality Grips China, Then Is Erased